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THE LAND OF SHEBA.
BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER'S
EXPLANATION.
IN ARABIA-NOT EAST AFRICA?
TROUBLE AT THE CIRCUS. TIN MINING BOOM IN F.M.S.
MORE STONE THROWING.
SEQUEL AT MAGISTRACY.
For the third time this week a case has come into the Central Magistracy in connection with the throwing of stones by Chinese at Wanchai near Isako's Cireas.
On Monday a Chinese was fined $50, or four weeks for disorderly conduct there, namely throwing stones and inud. On Tuesday after noun, a Chinese was fined $50 by
THREE NEW FLOTATIONS,
RUSH FOR LAND AT SINGGORA.
Three new companies have been formed, or are within the process of being floated, for the purpose of taking up land for in mining. The method of operation in all three cases will be by bucket dredging which has now been found to be the most profitable way of treating areas that are not hilly.
A British naval offeer's account of his years search for the lost lands of Ophir, the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, and of his dis- covery of them after a 10-months cruise in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Persian Gulf, form- Major C Willson for throwing Two of these companies is to ed the subject of a fascinating leestones at the Indian watchman, em-operate in the Batu Mukim, Selan- ture at Royal United Service In-ployed at Ianko's Circus. stitution.
The whereabouts of Ophir, from Which Bilkis, the Queen of Sheba, brought to Solomon her magnificent gifts has been one of the mysteries of the ages, but Commander Crauford claims that it has been solved, and he revealed his secret in his lecture. He said:
If Ophir is lost to modern geography, the loss is not due to lack of information. After 20 years search I had the good fortune to visit Ophic. I found it exactly where it ought to be-in Arabia and it has taken ine another aveni
Yesterday morning another case before the Court, & Chinese being charged with throwing stones near the Cirens.
gor, where two other dredging ven- tures which were doated last year are to operate. Mr, A. A. Hong- gler, of Kuala Lumpur, is under- stood to be the promoter of the two new companies, one of which will be at Sione and the other at Batu Caves. Shares in both the new companies have all been taken ap and are to day quoted at 30 cents; premium.
Luspector Blackman stated that the Chinese in the district could not get their own way with the cir cus people and they were retaliat ing by giving the Russians all the trouble they could. A certain por- tion of the fence around the circus The Bata Mukim has been found has been broken down and when to be sufficiently rich in tin for policemen try to drive away in-dredging propositions, so much so truders, they throw stones at them. that it is likely that quite a large The man who was charged yester area now ander rubber will in day, denied that he was throwing course of time be converted into stones and, as the evidence was not mining. As a matter of fact the very strong against him, the Magis Ophir has been declared to be intrate, Mr. Lindsell, caused him to Kent Tin Dredging Company an various parts of the world. Com he discharged.
Osborne, and Chappel flotation, matider Crauford said he began his search in China, and proceeded to
includes in its mining area a. por- Africa, South America, and Coy-
tion of Kent Rubber Estate. lon, but he found the first clue in the Red Sun. He continued:
years or so to furnish proofs of the identity of Ophir,
Red Sea Clus.
The problem of Ophir was the problem of finding a land where all the things which comprised the Queen of Sheba's great gift to Solo uon could be obtained.
ALLEGED SEDITIOUS
LITERATURE..
formally renianded on a charge of Chang Kong, who was last week possession of seditious literature was yesterday produced before Major C. Willson.
The third company is one which is being floated by Mr. J. B. David
Batu Gajah. to work an area in the vicinity of
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VESSELS EXPECTED. daraxtus (Blue Funnel), due July
ith.
Amazone (M.M.), duc July 19th. Alipuri (P,& O.), due to-morrow, antenar (Blue Funnel), due July
20th.
Arifura (E. & A.), duc July 4th. deinkin Prince (Prince Line), dus
July 2nd. Athos II. (M.M.), due August 16th. Benar (Swedish-East Asiatic),
раският
due June 28th, Benarty (Ben Line), due to-mor
Chantilly (M.M.), due August 22nd. Chenonceaux (MM), due August
30th.
D'Artaguan (M.M.), due Septem-
ber 3rd.
Meantime, a vast amount of pros- peeting is now going on at Kota When the queen arrived in lolo mon's country with her 33 tous of
Bahru (Perak), Bidor, Temoh, and gold, jewels, and the like, King the translator at the Secretariat for
Sub-Inspector Audrews said that in Siam, and it is not unlikely that iliram, who was friendly with Chinese Affairs was unable to atmonths public subscriptions will be in the course of the next few Solomon, was given the task of tend Court that morning, but the invited for several tiu mining pro. Booking over the merchandise. in doing so he noted the wholesaled by the translator if the Magis at the present moment there is
could put in translations duly sign-positions."
25th. markets and used a sailor's know-trate would accept then
Emprise of dein_(C.P.R.), – dao. ledge, which I followed.
June 27th: an extraordinary rush for mining Prucken (N.D.L.), due June 30th, land in the Singgora district of Hector (Blue Funnel), due August -South Siam," where the Land Office
translations had better be proved..
Major Willson thought that the Sub-Inspector Andrews then plied for another remand in order
produce the translator. The case was fixed for 13.30 a... on Saturday.
He planned a trading scheme -that-the-Mercantile Marine-of to
day could not better, and it was by following his route in a dhow (to single-masted ship of about 200 tons-the same type of craft as he weed-that we found the lost lands of Ophir.
Hiram's fleet traded all the way from Ezion Gebir (at the hend of the Red Sea) which I suggest was the great Zion-and Tarshish down the Red Sea, across the Ocean to Socotra Island, then on to Cer lo, back to the Persian Gulf, and along the east coast of Arabia. They traded all the way and "- turted to Ezion Gebir in three years.
the
By studying the ships. from be fore the Flood to the present day we found that the ships of Exion Gebir were identical with mudern Red Sea dhow. So we got a dhow and set out before the same trade winds as Hiram utilised to take him upon this greatest of all truding routes,
During our voyage down the Red Sea wo passed many a harbour that is hardly known to modern navigation, past Aden, or Eden, the land of pleasantness, where the Queen of Sheba stopped on her journey to Solomon's lands, and on to the Sheba 1slands. Here we waited, 29 Hiram did, for the second mouseon wind, which took us up to the Persian Gulf.
we.
We
With the third monsoon. coasted back, passed Muscat and Basel Hadd, and along the coast of Oman (south-east Arabia). As worked southwards Sabacan traces (that is, of the Kingdom of Sheba) grow stronger and inscrip- tions were plentiful.
Then we came
to Ophir, 400 miles east of Aden, with its ruined Temple of God. This was about half-way on our cruise.
Many a seaman and many political officer have visited that ancient fort, but they merely saw a litter of massive ruins. Digging is sometimes weary work, but you are richly repaid if you find a jewel
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Land That Ended Ophir "The city is ideally situated. It has a harbour to the north, and it has a river which gave wharfage to the sexport. But a thin ribbon of coral aand is drawn across the harbour mouth. It was this strip of sand which strangled the life of Ophir.
There is great. wealth in Ophir still Palestine at the present time. is the Palestine of King Saul, and it lies in our power to develop the land to the prosperity of Solomon. There are gold mines and precious stones in the ground. There is veritable Transvaal there.
With the help of the Ophir lands we may have a Palestine that includes all Arabia and also the extensive kingdom of Sabaca, and then we shall see the fulfilment of
the
is said to be inundated by applien tions for land, and prospectors and principals are flocking to the place in unusual numbers-Times of Malayo.
V.R.C. OPENING FETE.
PROGRAMME FOR JULY 2ND
Deucalion (Blue Funnel), due June
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Helens (Blue Funnel), due June
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view was popularised by the works of Theodore Bent and others, including Rider Haggard in his "King Solomon's Mines." The centre of speculation was a group of ruius at Zimbabwe, in Mashonaland. But seientific re As reported in our issue of on- searches showed that the ruins day the urst Night Fete of the year were magnified kraals, not more organised by the Victoria Beeren- Ningchow (Blue Funnel), due Aus Hong Kong Resity.....86 sel. than 300 or 400 years old.
EXPERT'S DOUBTFUL.
The British Museum officials were doubtful regarding the claim. An authority on ancient Arabia and Egypt said to a press roporter:
7th.
19th.
tion Club has been fixed for Satur
27th. day, July 2nd.
Novara (P. & O.), dus June 28th. The special attractions of the Nyanza (P. & ̈0. due July 7th. opening Fete are the Water Polo Patroclue (Blue Funnel), due June Match between the Victoria Re- creation Club and the 1st Cruiser Paul Lecat (M.M.), due July 5th,
22nd. Squadron, and the Team Race be Perseus (Blue Funnel), due July tween the Navy and the Army. These two events particularly interesting in view of
should prove Pyrrhus (Blue Funnel), due June the fact that the Victoria Recrea- Rawalpindi (P. &. 0.), due July tión Club was last year's cham
ious of the Water Polo League Philoctetes (Blue Fannel), due Aug. and the 1st Cruiser Squadron Team is an unknown quantity, Bon
In the Rhenor (Blue Funnel), due July Team Race between the Navy and Army, two very strong sets
. 7th. Sphina (M.M.), due June 21st. swimmers should be seen owing to St. Albans (E. & 4.), due June the unusual number of Serviceinen 28th. of both services to pick from.
In spite of the evidence I con- tinue to believe, as is generally believed, that Ophir is in India. We believe that no such person as Queen Bilkis ever existed.. Undeterred by this opinion, Com mander Crauford remained vinee and told the reporter:
..
I used no documents except the Old Testament, the standard book on ancient Arabia, and by far the most accurate.
The Town of Ophir,"
I studied carefully the goods she brought, and the route by which the Queen of Sheba brought them, as followed by King Iliram. I then discovered, after years of study, that the ships of Ezion Gebir at the head of the Red Sea] were identical with the Red Sea dhows of to-day. For. a long time I studied the Arah markets and the time taken for the goods to arrive, and gradual- ly by taking account the time, winds, and the spot where all the Queen of Sheba's gifts could be found, I arrived at Ophir
-Sheik's Statement,
The Lyric Band will play during the Fete and there will be dancing after the sports.
- The programme comprises -
50 Yards Handicap, open to Mem bers,
Pillow Fight. High Dive.
Water Polo.
50 Yards Handicap, open to boys 16 years of age and under.
RACES AT SINGAPORE.
TWO
ACCIDENTS IN STEEPLECHASE..
21st.
5th.
Talma (B.I. & Apear), due June
.28th.
Tanda (E. & A.), due August 8th. Telamon (Blue Funnel), due Aug.
19th. Telemachua (Blue Funnel), due
July 29th.
Falou (M.M.), due July 22nd. Yung Tse (M.M.), due June 20th.
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I was accompanied only by one marine officer and an interpreter, and we travelled in 20-ton dhow.
The second and final day of the The town of Ophir we found amateur meeting at the Singapore about 200 yards back from the Turf Club on Monday last week coast. The Temple of God was was marred by two accidents in the atil standing strongly, but other steeplechase, involving injuries to wise there was little but mounds, we A Woods, A.D.C. to H.E.. the ON
local sportsmen, Lieut.
Governor, and Lieut. H. 8. J. The sheik told me that, his Bourke, A.D.C. to
Credita, 4 monthe sight... 1315 H.E. the country was very rich, but he General.
On New Youx,-**** could not develop it for fear of
Glenvale, which Mr. Woods was the Bedouins. Certainly there riding, fell at the first obstacle, and is the finest coffee district in the the rider sustained concussion. world there. It is also rich in Hardly had he been picked up and minerals; in fact, an undeveloped put in the ambulance (which was Transvaal.
drawn up in rather sinister readi ́ON CALCUTTA, ness) than the horses wore round for the second time, when, at an
Their tradition is that they are the oldest Arabs, and they cer- tainly are among the originals They are called the Marwari, and are very learned.
the dreams of the two greateat of the Central Asia Society, said: Sir Michael O'Dwyer, a member rulers in history-Solomon Wise and Bilkis the beautiful Queen of Sheba."
In recent years it has been a favourite theory that Ophir was situated in East Africa, and this
(Continued on next Column).
other fence, Calendar fell and Os threw Mr. Bourke, who sustained
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It was learned the next morning ON MANILA--On demand As an indirect support I can that the accidents were not nearly ON SINGAPORE.-On demand... bring forward the fast that I so bad as appeared at first. Mr. ON HAIPHONG. On demand... nom. once met the Sultan Mokalla, who Woods suffered from only slight O BAIGON, Oa demand told me distinctly that there had concussion and soon recovered. The been gold nines in his district cute austained by Mr. Bourke' were at Ophir, and that they were not of a superficial nature. His worst now worked.
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